- Race relations, Slaveholders, Plantation life, Afro-Americans
Awesome. Excellent read. Could not put it down.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and raw.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Edward Ball, Edward Ball
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 505
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Penguin Books, Limited, DIANE Publishing Company
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374534455
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“My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves.”
Edward Ball is an American writer, a university instructor and the author of five books of non-fiction, including Slaves in the Family (1998) and The Inventor and the Tycoon (2013). - Wikipedia
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